iBlog5 Philippine Blogging Summit Soon

Three days to go and it's iBlog5- The 5th Philippine Blogging Summit. On its fifth year, this year's iBlog will be held on May 9, 2009 at the Malcolm Theater of the UP Law Center at the UP Diliman College of Law near the Sunken Garden. Check venue and map link here.

Registration is still free and starts as early as 8am. Surprise freebies for first 150 registrants to arrive. Program proper starts 9am with the topic Blogging 101 by Mica Rodriguez and AJ Matela. Check below for the rest of the program.

Morning session: (some can be sponsored talk)

• 9:00 - 9:20 Blogging 101 (Micaela Rodriguez & AJ Matela)
• 9:30 - 9:50 Photo Blogging 101 (Faith Salazar and Fritz Tentativa)
• 10:00 - 10:15 Break
• 10:15 to 10:35 Video Blogging 101 (Azrael Coladilla and Kring Elenzano)
• 10:45 - 11:05 Mobile Blogging 101 (Edwin “Ka Edong” Soriano)
• 11:15 - 11:35 Do’s and Don’ts of Blogging 101 (Benj Espina and Juned Sonido)
• 11:45 - 12:05 Blog Promotion & Traffic Generation Strategies 101 (Winston Almendras and Coy Caballes)
• 12:05 - 1:00 Lunch break

Afternoon session:

• 1:00 - 1:20 Legal issues in Blogging
• 1:30 - 2:30 Preparing Bloggers for the 2010 Elections
  - COMELEC on Blogging & Bloggers (Dir. James Jimenez, COMELEC-EID Director)
  - Citizen Journalism for the 2010 Elections (Oliver Robillo, NAMFREL Chairman - Davao City)
  - The Bloggers Election Handbook project release (Janette Toral)
• 2:40 - 3:30 Blog Advertising Situation in the Philippines (Mannix Pabalan - AyosDito, Laszlo Lim, Business Development Head - Yehey, Jayvee Fernandez and Eric Ramirez)
• 3:30 - 3:45 Break
• 3:45 - 4:45 Blogging to the Next Level (Fitz Villafuerte
  and Anton Diaz)
• 4:45 - 5:00 Raffle & Group picture taking
  

7:00 pm onwards After-Event Party (sponsored)

iBlog is personally special to me as last year's iBlog was my first major blogger event in terms of number of participants. I was also part of the volunteer group then as this is a non-profit summit/conference for bloggers supported by Ms. Janette Toral and the UP Internet Society among others. Thank you to the event sponsors for helping as well.

Late Registration

Online registration closed formally last April 30, 2009 but you can still attend. Click here to see how come. Even though you were not able to register online, you could still come but food and freebies are not guaranteed anymore since the number is estimated for those who registered only. Check list of registrants here (see who's number 9 :) ).

Internet Access

Internet access will be provided in the venue. For those who will be using plurk and/or twitter , use the hash tag #iblog5. More details here.

See you at the iBlog5 Philippine Blogging Summit in three days. :)